Jeff and I got a chance to touch base with Christophe Herreman of the Prana Framework. I suck with Timezones and crossing the pond, is my absolute bane!

Notes

• FlexShow twitter account
• Prana Framework
• ARP Framework
• Christophe's Blog

Contact

• E-mail Jeffry and John

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Recently, I had the chance to sit down with Sun’s Jacob Lehrbaum. We start out discussing the larger context that RIA technologies are finding themselves in and then narrow down to JavaFX in particular.
On that topic I ask Jacob to clear up the what and how questions around JavaFX and open source, we discuss how the JavaFX Preview release has been fairing, and then get into some of the future road-map for JavaFX.
If you’re interested in more about JavaFX, be sure to check out the two videos I also did on the topic with Sun’s Nandini Ramani.
Disclosure: this episode of RIA Weekly is sponsored by Sun, who’s also a client.
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In this episode Ryan joins from his tour of Asia (see above), calling in from Korea. We start out talking about Ryan’s observations of Japanese and Korean RIA developers and then move into a discussion of the recent announcements around jQuery.
Recapping some news of the past month, we talk about the after-glow usage of Google Chrome: while there was large initial interest, of course, we’ve just anecdotally seen people (like Managed Objects) suggesting its use for speed increases in using web applications.
After a few more news items - like Silverlight 2.0 — Ryan asks me how RIAs fit into the cloud computing hype that’s been going on: the answer revolves around RIAs trying to make this round of client/server computing better.
As an admin note, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve moved the podcast to it’s own URL at http://www.RIAWeekly.com. The feed is the same, so you shouldn’t have to change anything on the subscription front.
Disclosure: Adobe is a client, as are Microsoft and Managed Objects.
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Notes

• EffectiveUI
• 360|Flex
• Universal Mind
• Seinfeld Microsoft Commercial
• Jones Soda
• Flex Authority
• Adobe MAX
• Dot-com-it components beta
• Info World Open Source Awards
• ILOG purchased by IBM
• Spatial Key
• Zend and AMF
• Open Source Cairngorm
• Steven Webster on Cairngorm going OS
• Cairngorm Committee
• This week in Flex
• 360|Flex YouTube videos
• Flex in a Week
• Flex Builder upgrade t-shirt
• Mike Chambers on Ecmascript and ActionScript
• dear Adobe
• Mike Chambers Flash Platform Chat

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In addition to talking with Zend’s Andi Gutmans about the PHP/Flex announcement this morning at ZendCon, I had the chance to talk with Mike Potter of Adobe to hear their side of the story. In addition to going over the basics of the announcements - see the episode with Andi for a quick wrap-up - as you can guess, we spend more time talking about what AMF is and how it fits into the overall Flex and AIR world. Mike also gives us more detail on the tooling integration.
Additionally, we talk about new uses of Flex Mike has seen of late and talk about how appeal to the PHP community relates to the Java community relations Adobe has been doing for sometime.
Finally, having discovered that Mike is a big curling fan, I ask him to explain the game and some of the culture around it: you’ll be pretty up to speed on the basics of curling once you’re through with this episode ;>
Disclosure: Adobe is a client, as is Zend.

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Andi Gutmans tells us about the RIA related announcements at ZendCon this morning. First, he goes through the announcements:

• making the Zend Studio and Flex Builder work together in the present and targeting better integration, like debugging in the future
• Adobe's work and contribution to link up AMF to Zend-land
• And then ongoing education and evangelizing around PHP and Flex

Check out Andi's write-up on his blog as well.
We then discuss how PHP is primarily used in the RIA world, namely, as a gateway to the back-end for the UI layer. Along those lines, we discuss the existing use of PHP by Flex developers - Andi says Adobe told him 25% of Flex users are using PHP.
I ask Andi to talk about the types of applications that might benefit from this Adobe/Zend partnership: he cites intranet business applications, those that include multi-media interfaces, and also the Automotive Computer Services customer example cited in the press release around the announcement.
Finally, Andi being a self-proclaimed open source person, I ask him how he resolves the closed nature of Flex, namely, the Flash player. As we discus, while Adobe has opened up so much more of Flex, there's still that closed core. Bouncing of the idea of "if it works for you use it" we talk about other UI technologies, like Silverlight, that Zend may be interested in partnering more closely with if interests arises in the PHP community.
And, the previous episode we reference at the begining was indeed, from Microsoft MIX, episode #009b to be exact.

Disclosure: Zend and Adobe are clients, as are Microsoft and IBM.

Before heading out to 360|Flex San Jose, we had a chance to talk to Theo about Flash/Flex SEO. Theo has covered the board in his programming experience, focusing almost entirely now in Flash and Flex development, and SEO topics.

Notes

• Theo's Blog
• Deep Linking
• Searchable SWF
• Progressive Enhancement

Contact

• E-mail Jeffry and John